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1 Clement 29.3

Clement of Rome · 1 Clement · ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) · Rome · Read in context

Summary: God takes a people for himself like firstfruits.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:58

καὶ ἐν ἑτέρῳ τόπῳ λέγει· Ἰδού, κύριος λαμβάνει ἑαυτῷ ἔθνος ἐκ μέσου ἐθνῶν, ὥσπερ λαμβάνει ἄνθρωπος τὴν ἀπαρχὴν αὐτοῦ τῆς ἅλω· καὶ ἐξελεύσεται ἐκ τοῦ ἔθνους ἐκείνου ἅγια ἁγίων.

English · Claude translation

And in another place he says: “Behold, the Lord takes for himself a nation out of the midst of nations, as a man takes the firstfruit of his threshing floor; and out of that nation shall come the Holy of Holies.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:58 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • This quotation is not found as such in Scripture; it combines phrases from Deut 4:34; 14:2; Num 18:27; 2 Chr 31:14; Ezek 48:12.

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1 Clem. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/29/3/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/29/3/).

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